Wednesday, June 19, 2013

As you can see, the process has been somewhat Sisyphusian so far. After the initial "winging-it" attempt crashed and burned, the second attempt ended up being over-planned, so I had to scale it back quite a bit. But now I think I'm finally on the right track - cross your fingers - so hopefully we'll have a completed first draft sometime before the end of the year. Isn't the creative process fun?

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

It's hard to choose - any scenes that I didn't love didn't make the final draft of the book - but I would have to say that it's probably the climax. I actually had a rough draft of that scene written out when the whole book was still only in outline form.

Since that scene is chock full of spoilers, though, today I'm going to talk about another one of my favorite scenes - one that I actually re-read every so often just for my own personal enjoyment.

It's the part in Chapter 12 when it's Joel and Felicity's turn to watch their traveling campsite. It's a quiet scene in between some heavy action sequences where the reader gets a chance to know the characters a little better. It also contains one of my favorite lines in the whole book. I'm feeling generous today, so in case you haven't read it yet (gasp), I've included it in today's blog post...after the jump!

Be sure to check out the next installment of Bards & Brews, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one - in fact, check them all out! They happen every last Friday of each month. Did I mention the spicy cole slaw?

About Me

I'm an author, musician, philanthropist, and dad to two awesome kids. My JOEL SUZUKI series of novels is available online and from various fine bookstores. My band's albums FORTRESS STORM ATTACK!! and NOBODY'S HERO are available via our website at secondplayerscore.com.